Re: Basic difference between Ipad and Samsung pad
Like everyone else says, it is all in what you want.
If you want a premium, solid, elegant tablet for general media consumption, get the iPad.
If you are a power user and likes to tinker, you want more power, a better screen, watch more movies and like expandable storage, being able to plug in your computer's 3TB USB Hard drive and access all of your media files on the tablet without having to go through iTunes and hope that it "allows" you to copy over what you want, have HDMI ports, an OS that actually multitasks, etc... You go Android.
If you want to game, and I mean real game, not the crappy kids games that the itunes store is full of, get an NVidia Shield tablet. Blows other tablets out of the water, and as Steam adds more "PC" games to that platform, you are now actually able to play Half Life 2 and real PC games on that tablet, and it actually runs them well. The next version that should be announced soon, will finally offer you full desktop power and gaming graphics on a tablet form factor...
I like my iPad 2 Air, but that is because I have a Note 4 for my phone use and Windows gaming PC's and Linux laptops here for my other computing needs.
If I needed a tablet to handle some of that load, I would have a Shield Tablet or an MS Surface 3.
I just use the iPad for web browsing, shopping, reading, email, etc... And for that, it is great... but to be fair, any tablet can do that.
I am an Android fanboy, but I decided to go back to Apple this round for my tablet needs and while it is limited compared to Android, it does what I need and it does it very well.
I won't leave Android for an iPhone... Would be too much of a downgrade... iOS for a modern smartphone is horribly antiquated and limited... Other than being larger and prettier overall, it isn't much different than it was when I had the iPhone, iPhone 3G, etc...